Joe Biden lied about who he was when he ran for president. He said he was a moderate. He isn’t. He said he would unite the country. He hasn’t. He said he would revive the economy. He didn’t.
Lying is nothing new to the Democratic Party. The lies are big - The exit from Afghanistan was fine, January 6th was a violent insurrection, lockdowns were successful, the vaccine was not risky, the economy is strong, gender is a construct. And their lies are small, Stephen Colbert is funny.
One of the biggest lies was that Kamala Harris was the right choice for Vice President. They lied because they had to. They lied because it was easy. They lied because no one in the media would call them out on it.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, and it’s clear to the Democrats that Harris was the wrong choice, they’re stuck.
So, you might ask, how did they end up in this position in the first place? Isn’t that what elections are for? To weed out the weak and reward the strong? Yes, that is usually what elections are for, except for 2020. That might be all the proof you need to realize just how corrupt and artificial it was.
When you drill down into the Kamala Calamity, you’ll see just how disconnected from reality the Democrats have become. They can’t handle the actual truth. They prefer the negotiated truth—the comfortable lie.
Harris had risen in the party's ranks after she challenged Justice Kavanaugh during the confirmation hearing. From then on, her reputation became that she was tough enough to challenge Trump in ways Biden couldn’t. But even in that hearing, her tone was not quite right. Even if it played well online, it was off-putting:
The problem was no one could say so out loud, at least not on the Left. It was verboten to criticize any woman’s tone, let alone a woman of color. That was just the beginning of pushing the idea of Harris rather than coming to terms with who Harris actually was. She might have been a great prosecutor, but her on-camera persona was snide, condescending, and even bitchy.
But if anyone dared to suggest it, and believe me, I tried, they would be attacked as woman-hating “white feminists.” And believe me, I was.
But it wasn’t just Harris’ personality that made her a poor choice for Biden. She’d also driven a wedge between her supporters and Biden supporters by suggesting she believed the sexual harassment allegations against him.
Worse than that, she was prepared to insinuate Biden, of all people, was a racist. She didn’t say so directly, but did that matter?
Here she is in her viral moment:
But even that could have been overlooked. It was her fateful exchange with Tulsi Gabbard that exposed her real weakness. She was too easily triggered.
How Biden was ultimately pressured into choosing Harris is a tawdry tale of online tribal warfare and identity politics. Of forced apologies and comfortable lies. A story of a timid press corps in an insular utopia, of activists who were none too pleased that they had to choke down an “old white guy” at the top of the ticket. The last thing anyone was thinking about was the truth.
The Great War
The passion for Kamala Harris online did not match what was happening on the ground. No one could surpass Biden in the polls. Only Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren came close.
Harris became so unpopular she couldn’t even win her home state of California. Since Bernie was not an option for Biden’s Veep, the next in line would have been Warren. She had the largest core of support among the females in the race. Her biggest problem? She was white.
White women dominate the base of the Democratic Party, but they’re also potentially Karens. They have to be “good allies” and “de-center” themselves from the narrative. That meant many of them elevated Harris to nearly god-like status, as they — we — had done with the Obamas. Women were getting tattoos of her on their bodies. Even the Babylon Bee joked about it:
A clique of Harris supporters online was dubbed the #KHive. They were notoriously vicious, especially to Warren supporters. But since no one online can ever speak the truth about anything, most people were bullied into silence or else forced to play along.
But the war was becoming dangerous for a party that had lost in 2016 due, at least in part, to a fracture among Hilary and Bernie supporters. That meant if people were mad enough about the outcome of the primary, the losing side might stay home.
This piece on Medium is one of the few artifacts left of that era, much of which went unreported by the incurious press.
Reasons Why We Will Not Be Moving to Warren from Harris:
This article was written by various members of the #KHive who are all members of at least one oppressed class, and most are members of more than one. Although it is published here, it is not something the author can take credit for personally, although she did contribute.
The piece details their complaints against Warren with all the fake authority of your typical Tumblr tween, throwing out the word “problematic” several times. Their complaints against Warren read like a typical “cancel” for the woke:
A Cosmetic Choice?
Biden had already committed to choosing a woman as his running mate, which is what sparked the war between the Harris and Warren camps. But after he won the nomination, he said he would choose a “Black woman.” He had narrowed it down to four.
According to CNN, those names were then-Senator Kamala Harris, Florida Rep. Val Demings, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and Rep. Karen Bass.
The Warren supporters would not give in so easily. Laurence Tribe stepped in it when he joined 100 others who signed a letter urging Biden to choose Warren as his running-mate, suggesting he should not make such a serious decision for “cosmetic” reasons.
Tribe wouldn’t be the first nor the last Democrat to apologize for telling the truth, but his slip-up would set an example for anyone who might think of doing so in the future.
The official story would never be that the dust-up over Tribe’s accidental truth-telling moment pressured Biden into choosing Harris to hold the coalition together. Instead they had to push yet another comfortable lie on their readers, per the NY Times:
Yet no other candidate scored as highly with Mr. Biden’s selection committee on so many of their core criteria for choosing a running mate, including her ability to help Mr. Biden win in November, her strength as a debater, her qualifications for governing and the racial diversity she would bring to the ticket. No other candidate seemed to match the political moment better.
No reasonable person believed that story but no one had the guts to challenge it either. Harris had no strength as a debater, as she’d once again prove in her debate with Mike Pence where she kept repeating, like a school marm, “I’m speaking.”
The press would hand the win to Harris, and she would be applauded, but, at least to me, it was yet more proof that she wasn’t quite ready for prime time.
Harris first big moment as the Vice President was on NBC News with Lester Holt where she, once again, proved to be too easily triggered. That might not seem like a big deal to those who love her, and many do, but her problem was that no one was ever honest with her. When her numbers began to plummet, none of them had any good answer except that America was “misogynist” and “racist.”
It doesn’t matter how much they continually attack the Right. They can’t fix who they are. They are their own worst problem. The Democrats believe they can change people by changing reality. From art to movies to science to comedy and even to politics, they force on Americans what they think they should want, instead of what they do want.
Their efforts at progress through equity have backfired on them with Harris. Was it fair to her to put her in a job she wasn’t ready for? Is everyone just going to keep pretending it’s all going fine and hope for the best? In the end, when the smoke clears and the years pass, her face will still be in history books and maybe that’s good enough.
The question is, will they tell the truth, or will they tell yet another comfortable lie?
By now, Harris’ numbers are worse than Trump’s:
Biden and the Democrats are now paying the price for their comfortable lies, their gaslighting, and their negotiated truth. Can they spin out another election like 2020, where the candidates don’t matter because the system does all the work?
Maybe.
Ted Cruz has a suggestion for them that might save the day. He thinks Michelle Obama might just parachute in at the last minute to be the Deus Ex Machina that saves the country from Trump.
It’s not a great sign that everything is suddenly coming back. COVID, masks, and even Biden’s ongoing pitch to the American public to scare them to the polls by demonizing his own citizens — the “MAGA extremists,” he splutters. But the American people don’t quite see it that way.
They see the reality the Democrats can’t hide, that they’re the extremists. They’re the ones pushing radical gender ideology on unsuspecting parents. They’re the ones advocating for a wide open border, then lying to the public about it. They’re the ones who have stopped policing crime in the big cities.
They’ve bulldozed our sacred norms, with their endless charges and indictments against Trump just to make him easier for Biden to beat.
Biden pulled a bait-and-switch when he sold himself as the moderate. He turned out to be anything but. The Democrats are long overdue for a reality check. And they just might get one. By now, voters might be thinking, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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The Kamala Calamity